Afghanistan recollects ambassador, prime diplomats from Pakistan in wake of envoy’s daughter kidnapping and torture

Kabul has known as again its ambassador and senior diplomats from its embassy in Islamabad, citing safety threats days after the Afghan ambassador’s daughter was briefly kidnapped and tortured by unknown assailants.

“The Management of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan known as again Afghanistan’s Ambassador and senior diplomats from Pakistan till all safety threats are addressed together with the arrest and trial of the perpetrators of abduction,” the Afghan Overseas Ministry stated in a short assertion on Sunday.

An Afghan delegation might be despatched to Pakistan to watch the investigation of the kidnapping, the ministry stated, with out specifying the day when the delegation will arrive within the neighboring nation. Any additional actions could be primarily based on the findings of this group, it added.

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Pakistan’s Overseas Ministry known as the choice “unlucky and regrettable.” It additionally stated that “safety of the ambassador, his household and personnel of the Embassy and Consulates of Afghanistan in Pakistan has been additional beefed up.” The Pakistani international secretary met with the ambassador earlier than his depart and guaranteed him that Islamabad would absolutely cooperate with Kabul on this case.

Silsila Alikhil, the daughter of the Afghan envoy to Islamabad, Najib Alikhil, was kidnapped on Friday as she was returning to her residence within the Pakistani capital. She was coming again in a taxi after visiting a bakery when the driving force picked up one other man, who then verbally abused and assaulted her, Pakistan’s Daybreak newspaper reported.

The unknown assailants allegedly held her captive for a number of hours and tortured her. She was then discovered with accidents and cord marks on her physique and was taken to a hospital.

“The kidnapping of [the] Afghan ambassador’s daughter & her subsequent torture has wounded the psyche of our nation. Our nationwide psyche has been tortured,” Afghanistan’s Vice President Amrullah Salen stated in a Twitter put up on Sunday.

President @ashrafghani instructed @mfa_afghanistan to name again our ambassador from Islamabad together with all senior diplomats. The kidnapping of Afgh ambassador's daughter & her subsequent torture has wounded the psyche of our nation. Our nationwide psyche has been tortured.

— Amrullah Saleh (@AmrullahSaleh2) July 18, 2021

Islamabad stated that the case is underneath investigation. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan designated the probe into the kidnapping as a prime precedence concern and demanded the perpetrators be discovered inside 48 hours, Pakistani Inside Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad stated on Saturday.

Relations between the 2 neighbors have lengthy been relatively tense. Kabul beforehand accused Islamabad of offering secure havens to the Taliban whereas Pakistan accused Afghanistan of harboring another militant teams that launched assaults on Pakistani territory.

Islamabad was recommended for serving to to convey the Taliban militants to the negotiating desk in Qatar final 12 months when Afghan peace talks started. But, these negotiations have yielded no substantive outcomes to this point. The Taliban has massively ramped up its offensive in Afghanistan and captured important swathes of territory within the nation’s north amid the US pullout that’s scheduled to be completed by September 11.

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